Flaming ArtistThe Daily Derriere series of artworks is done using a 2012 American Express Appointment Book as my sketchbook. Instead of ignoring or avoiding the printed material in the book, I used it to spark ideas for my drawings, staring at the photographs until a drawing idea came to mind. The drawing was done with Prismacolor.
I was trying to abstract the ass to its simplest elements. I almost got there, but chickened out, adding to little diagonal lines at the top of the vertical.
This is an ink wash drawing of a butt artistically framed by a jockstrap. It was copied from a photograph in my collection culled from mid-80’s gay porn magazines such as Mandate and Honcho.
In this evening’s entry, I got even simpler that this morning’s. There’s only one big circle, this time orange instead of white, with a single, big anus drawn thereon.
As I continued drawing butts everyday for this “Daily Derriere” series of artworks, I continued to simplify, abstract. For this entry, I glued a sheet of blue construction paper onto the page of the 2012 American Express Appointment Book, then I randomly yet artistically positioned a random number of small round labels on the paper. Then I drew anuses on the labels.
This is the drawing from yesterday evening, traced in Photoshop using the brush tool. At some future point, I may color it. Or maybe you will.
Flaming Artist, Austin Texas, Buttocks; these are my keywords. Another is”American Express Appointment Book”, which I used to make this series of drawings in. This is the 2012 edition.
“Frottage”:arriving at an orgasm by pressing up behind someone in a crowd and rubbing up against that person” (New Webster’s Medical Dictionary ©1981). It doesn’t seem to apply specifically to this drawing, but it comes close enough.